On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > Some really nice things are happening with postgresql as well, you > should check it out. > This was a great thread. For one, it's interesting to see the approaches you can take to solve an issue. I.e., we can tune the OS to quite a degree, but many times just optimizing a query can lead to much greater improvements. We can also sometimes throw hardware at the problem; and sometimes doing that is faster/cheaper than a heuristic approach :D.